For Abdul Alim, the Liberation War was something more than just a battle between the Bangalee freedom fighters and the Pakistani army and their local collaborators. It for him was a special mission, a mission to wipe out a particular community: the Hindu.

Throughout the nine-month war, Alim, then 41, incited his followers with fiery speeches to loot properties of the Hindus in Joypurhat. But he did not stop there ...